Voters at pizza tasting will decide who makes Pottstown's best pie

POTTSTOWN — It is a question that has plagued mankind since pizza was invented.

Whose pizza is the best?

It is, of course, a difficult question to answer definitively, but the Pottstown Regional Public Library is going to give it a try using the power of democracy.

In other words, they’re going to let people vote.

And you and/or your kids can be among the voters for the free July 23 tasting, but just like voting in elections, you have to register first.

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You can register either by calling 610-970-6551, or stopping by the library.

But you had better hurry, because word is spreading.

As a result of the growing interest, the event itself — scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. — has grown, said Leslie Stillings, director of youth services, who helped organize the tasting.

“This started out as a run of the mill summer program, but has begun to garner some attention from different pizza places,” Stillings wrote in an e-mail responding to a Mercury inquiry.

“The pizzerias have been coming to us. So we decided to move it upstairs, open it up to a larger audience, and have begun to create multiple categories for voting and certificates for the winning pizzerias,” Stillings wrote.

“Some of the categories include: best overall, best crust, best sauce.”

The program is intended for teenagers, 10 to 18 years of age, but the library will also welcome children and families.

Participants will blindly taste the different pizzas and vote on the best pizza in town.

The following pizzerias have already signed up to have their offerings tested in the hopes of winning bragging rights:

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